The CFPB is tasked with protecting the public from unfair or abusive practices by mortgage servicers, payday lenders, and debt collectors... Under the CPFB’s current director, Richard Cordray, billions of dollars have been returned to consumers caught up in credit scams or malpractice in the banking sector. MAGA..?
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) also stopped and spoke to reporters at length Monday night, calling the GOP bill "disgusting and immoral" and saying it "must be defeated." "To think that in the year 2017, Republicans want to throw 24 million people off their health insurance, raise premiums for older people and at the same time provide $285 billion in tax breaks for the top two percent," he said gravely. "This bill should not see the light of day. If it passes, and people lose their health insurance, thousands of Americans will die."
The buck doesn't even slow down on Trump's desk: Trump has accused Obama of lying about his birthplace, secretly aiding ISIS, secretly being a Muslim, and wiretapping Trump’s phone. On Friday, the president added another charge to his indictment: Obama deliberately designed the Affordable Care Act to fall apart — and cause massive suffering — as soon as he left office. 2017 “would be a disaster for Obamacare,” Trump said“That’s the year it was meant to explode, because Obama won’t be here. That’s when it was supposed to be, get even worse.
HISTORY MAKING: It must be Saturday — President Trump — who regularly lambasted his predecessor for spending too much time playing the sport — is golfing for the ninth time since taking office seven weeks ago. On the campaign trail he promised he wouldn’t golf if he was elected President because he’d be too busy.
Two of the biggest tax cuts in Republican proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act would deliver roughly $157 billion over the coming decade to those with incomes of $1 million or more, according to a congressional analysis... People making $200,000 to $999,999 a year would also get sizable tax cuts. In total, the two provisions would cut taxes by about $274 billion..
Trump is fanatically demanding and leading with fanaticism to defend the blood purity and unprecedented impenetrable security of the Homeland, and the TSA Gestapo is manaically executing his pitiless decrees.
Trump's fantastic real estate deal in 2006 with Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev:
“Maison de l’Amitie,” or the House of Friendship. It was the trophy of a Boston-area magnate, until he lost his fortune in 2004. That’s when Donald Trump scooped it up. After paying $41 million for the place in November 2004, Trump called it “the finest piece of land in Florida, and probably the U.S.” ......Trump had no intention of living there. He intended to flip it for a quick—and huge—profit. His initial asking price, less than two years after buying it, was $125 million. By the time Trump listed the property, in early 2006, the real estate market was already cooling off.... In the summer of 2008, Trump found a solution to his problem in the form of one of the world’s hundred richest men: a 41-year-old Russian billionaire named Dmitry Rybolovlev....
.....if Iraq remains on the list of banned nations in a revised order the White House says it is preparing, he could face another political rebellion that could cause his government to collapse. Tehran’s Shiite militias could push to replace U.S. forces in the fight for Mosul; or more likely, Iran’s clients could demand that all American forces leave Iraq immediately after the battle...
President Trump will instruct federal agencies on Monday to assemble a budget for the coming fiscal year that includes sharp increases in Defense Department spending..
Muhammad Ali Jr., the 44-year old Muslim son of the world-famous boxer who died last year, was held for several hours at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Feb. 7 when he and his family returned home from a trip to Jamaica.... "This is an outrage," Chris Mancini, a former federal prosecutor and the family's lawyer, told the Miami New Times. "I don't know what is going on with Mr.
....Passengers on Delta Flight 1583 were asked to show their IDs to armed U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents as they stepped off the aircraft onto the jet bridge, according to passengers who snapped photos and posted them online.....The individual was determined not to be on the flight."
ICE has a tip line for reporting things, no cash bounty yet for informers.
"House Republicans and the Trump administration on Tuesday filed a joint motion seeking to delay lawsuit proceedings that threaten to undo President Barack Obama's health care law, the Affordable Care Act"......Republicans: "classic Marxist strategy known as “heightening the contradictions,” in which you intention
Washington (CNN)The Defense Department might propose that the US send conventional ground combat forces into northern Syria for the first time to speed up the fight against ISIS, CNN has learned."It's possible that you may see conventional forces hit the ground in Syria for some period of time," one defense official told CNN.
House Republicans are expected to pass a measure to thwart efforts by California, Illinois and other states to establish basic retirement savings plans for employees at companies that do not offer such coverage... Financial firms claim that the plans represent unfair government competition. That’s false, but that doesn’t seem to concern House Republicans as they use a fast-track process to derail the states’ plans, siding with the financial industry over ordinary savers.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. climbed to a record high on optimism President Donald Trump’s administration will spur trading and dealmaking, slash corporate taxes and roll back costly regulations after installing the firm’s executives in top government posts.
"Clearly, we have a President who does not understand what our Constitution about, what democracy is about. And I think there is a fear in this country of this nation under Trump moving into a more authoritarian mode," Sanders said. Adding that he also calls the President a "pathological liar," Sanders said he didn't feel good using such harsh terms. "I disagreed with George Bush all the time -- never called him a pathological liar, because he was not. Just a conservative president.
Mr. Schwarzman and his brethren have become symbols for the economic inequality that Mr. Trump deplored during his campaign.... The lower- and middle-income Americans who voted for Mr. Trump in droves would do well to listen hard to what Mr. Schwarzman is advising. They’ll hear the sound of dollars being sucked out of their pockets and slipped into the wallets of the 1 percent.
The Navy SEAL raid in Yemen last week had a secret objective — the head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who survived and is now taunting President Donald Trump in an audio message. Military and intelligence officials told NBC News the goal of the massive operation was to capture or kill Qassim al-Rimi, considered the third most dangerous terrorist in the world and a master recruiter.
Frank: “I do not think he’s going to get 60 senators to vote to get rid of (Dodd -Frank 2010 Banking Law),” he said. “So what you then have, I believe, is he’s going to appoint people who won’t enforce the law.” Dodd-Frank introduced regulations on the manipulation of derivatives of complex financial instruments like the ones that led to the collapse of AIG.
Bernie finally perceives Trump is a con man: It is hard not to laugh, to see President Trump alongside these Wall Street guys. I have to say this Jake, and I don't mean to be disrespectful, this guy is a fraud," Sanders told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union."
